Daily Archives: December 22, 2023
Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem
A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust remembrance center on Thursday.
The event...
The Burning Bush : Writings on Jews and Judaism, by Vladimir Solovyov
"In The Burning Bush, Glazov conducts a profoundly original inquiry into Vladimir Solovyov's attitude toward Judaism. Solovyov (1853-1900) was one of the most remarkable figures of the 19th century: He was the most important...
Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor
Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported.
Blavatnik, who is Jewish and...
Gadi Haggai, 73, is first US citizen confirmed killed by Hamas as a hostage
An Israeli-American is the first U.S. citizen taken hostage who has died in Hamas captivity in Gaza, a group representing the families of Hamas prisoners announced on Friday.
Gadi Haggai, 73, a U.S.-Israeli dual national,...
Not an international crime to kill soldiers, UN’s Francesca Albanese says of Oct. 7
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, has courted controversy among Israel supporters for her one-sided faulting of Israel for its conflict with the Palestinians and comments she has made which...
Netanyahu to bereaved families: Your children did not die in vain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday night at military headquarters in Tel Aviv with bereaved families from the Heroism Forum, who told him about their loved ones that fell in battle.
The families...
The medical specialists who left all behind to volunteer in Israel
Mere hours into the Oct. 7 onslaught, the Israeli Health Ministry received dozens of applications from medical teams abroad who wanted to come to Israel and volunteer.
It received requests from some 7,500 physicians from...
Jews in Judea and Samaria fear return of Palestinian workers
The Berkleys live on a quiet street in Karnei Shomron in Samaria where almost every second house is undergoing necessary renovations. The homes, built in the 1980s when the town was first established, need...
Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine
Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains,...
A mother prays for a sign of life from her captive son
“I love you, stay strong, survive.”
These are the words Rachel Goldberg utters daily since Hamas terrorists kidnapped her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, during the organization's Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in the northwestern...